Lawrence Weiner

by Alberro, Alexander; Weiner, Alice; Batchelor, David

• ISBN13: 9780714837550
• ISBN10: 0714837555
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-06
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

This volume surveys the work of one of the canonical Conceptual artists ofhe 1960s, American artist Lawrence Weiner. He pioneered the radicalroposition that the work of art could exist as a concept, without the needor physical materials which will decay and which transform art into consumeroods.;As well as being art historically significant, making an enormousmpact on subsequent generations, Weiner continues to occupy a powerfulresence in the contemporary artworld through an ongoing series ofxhibitions and public commissions. He composes texts which are evocative ofrocess, materials, structure and history. Working within the specifics of aarticular site he uses its architecture and geography as inspiration. Helways uses Univers Condensed, a simple, utilitarian yet elegant typeface,dding a painterly quality with his choice of vivid colours or starkonochromes. Weiner is dedicated to the idea of access, distribution and theree circulation of art and ideas. To this end he has situated his works inites ranging from gallery walls to postcards, CDs and videos.;The book is

Author Biography

Alexander Alberro is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Florida. His writings have appeared in October, Artforum and Frieze magazines, as well as numerous catalogues.

Alice Zimmerman is based in New York and Amsterdam, and is Weiner's official archivist and documenter. She was Research Editor on his compilations Show and Tell: The Films and Videos of LW (Imschoot, 1992) and Specific and General Works (Le Nouveau Musée, 1993). She is also creator of the Moved Pictures Archives, an extensive collection of artists' books and writings. Zimmerman has produced and performed in artists' films, videos and books since the 1960s.

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is an art historian and critic and a Professor of twentieth-century and post-war art history at Harvard University. An editor of October magazine and co-author of Art Since 1900 (2005), Buchloh has also published his collected essays in Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry (2000) and Formalism and Historicity (2004).  

David Batchelor is an artist, writer and lecturer at London's Royal College of Art. He has interviewed many artists who were part of the Minimalist and Conceptual art movements. Batchelor regularly contributes to Freize and Artforum magazines. He is a co-author of Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art between the Wars (Yale, 1993) and his book Minimalism was published by the Tate Gallery in 1997.

Table of Contents

Interview Benjamin H.D. Buchloh in conversation with Lawrence Weiner	6	(28)
Alexander Alberro
Alice Zimmerman
Survey NOT HOW IT SHOULD WERE IT TO BE BUILT BUT HOW IT COULD WERE IT TO BE BUILT	34	(40)
David Batchelor
Focus MANY COLORED OBJECTS PLACED SIDE BY SIDE TO FORM A ROW OF MANY COLORED OBJECTS	74	(12)
W.B. Yeats
Artist's Choice An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, 1919	86	(8)
Kenneth Patchen
When in the Course of Human Events, 1936	90	(4)
Lawrence Weiner
Artist's Writings Art Without Space, 1969	94	(50)
Notes from the California Lectures, 1981	100	(6)
I Am Not Content, 1982	106	(2)
Notes on a Table, 1988	108	(1)
The Need of a Place (a Table) to Present What is Done, 1989	109	(1)
A Public Conversation with Willard Holmes, 1990	110	(14)
Notes On & About Art, 1995	124	(6)
A Translation From One Language To Another, 1995	130	(2)
Intervention, 1997	132	(12)
Chronology	144	(16)
Bibliography, List of Illustrations	160